Re: run-elflint-self.sh fails on alpha

[Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:28 -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> It probably makes sense for the hook to get all the arguments that
> check_special_symbol gets too, so it can check some details of the specific
> symbol rather than just generically for known bits.  Hmm, perhaps even just
> having check_special_symbol do this would be OK too, though that might be
> too coarse since it's used in several places.

Yeah, that seems overkill, since all it really does is check whether the
bit pattern is acceptable. check_special_symbol could get new
functionality added, but that only makes sense if you also check other
semantics, which we aren't doing here.

> If it is a new hook, then
> it might be better for it to get st_other & ~GELF_ST_VISIBILITY so that
> the backend only has to check for the machine-specific bits instead of
> also encoding the generic knowledge.

yes, good point. I made that change on the mjw/ebl_special_other branch.
OK the merge to trunk?

Thanks,

Mark